Hi. Thanks for the info :) My plan is to first use pypy for a few weeks as a user (perhaps writing a few benchmarks, testing out stuff like AOP, reading the docs on pypy and psyco etc). I hope to be involved more directly from sometime in october.
thanks, rahul On 9/20/07, Leonardo Santagada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Em Sep 20, 2007, às 7:15 AM, Rahul Garg escreveu: > > > Hi. > > > > I recently discovered PyPy and its one cool project in which I > > would love to > > be involved in some capacity :) > > GReat just great > > > So I have a bunch of questions about the direction and status of > > the project > > > > > > a) How is the LLVM backend coming along? > > The LLVM backend is unmaintened for some time, so to ressurect it you > would need to work a little on it. Recently someone commited some > changes that made most of the tests passing again using LLVM 1.9 so > what you would need to do is: > * update LLVM to use the LLVM 2.0 sintax (specially accepting LLVM > 2.0 generated code from llvm-gcc) > * make threads work (I think this was one of the things the last > commit removed) > * make rffi work on it (this is a new way to call C code, created > after the LLVM got unmaintened). > * Lot's of other little things... > * profit :) > > > > b) What really are the focus areas of the project currently? > > After the eu project ended people took some time off the project to > recharge the batteries... and now people have started working again, > and the focus is on cleanups, you can find more on pypy/doc/cleanup- > todo.txt. > > > c) Any wishlists ? > > I think that everyone has its own besides cleanup-todo, mine is > suport for unicode at the RPython level, a new garbage collector, and > the revival of the LLVM backend, and of course the completion of the > JIT. > > This is all from someone following the development of pypy from the > outside, but I think I got most things right :) > > []'s > -- > Leonardo Santagada > > >
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